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This page hosts requests for administrator access on the Meta-Wiki; for requesting administrator access on any other wiki, please find the appropriate venue on the index of request and proposal pages. Bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight and bot requests are also made here. Before making a request here, please see the administrator policy.

Most requests should be listed here for at least seven days; bureaucrats should only close after the minimum time foreseen in the relevant policy. Discussions are not closed early. Adminship will be granted by a support ratio of at least 75%. If a request hasn't been addressed by a bureaucrat after a lengthy period of time, please leave a note at Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Requests may be extended, or put on hold by bureaucrats, pending decision or finding of consensus.

Requests for temporary adminship and bot requests may be less formal and often go for a shorter duration if consensus becomes clear after only a few days of discussion.

All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate in any request and give their opinion of the candidate. However, more active Meta editors' opinions may be given additional weight in controversial cases.

See below for information on prerequisites on submitting a request, and how to add a nomination.

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Note that this page is for access on Meta only. See the permission request to stewards page for adminship/deadminship requests on other projects.

Regular adminship

  1. Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
  2. Use the box below, insert your username:

  3. Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example {{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}. Please put the newest request on the top. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request.
  4. Please note, past administrators who have given up their rights must meet all criteria at the time of the new request. There is no separate process for reinstating past administrators.

Please note: Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both the community and the candidate. Any successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta-Wiki. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship here at Meta-Wiki.

Bureaucratship

Add your request below under the bureaucratship section. Please note:

  • Only active administrators can become bureaucrats, and only after at least 6 months of regular adminship.
  • User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves here.

If you fail any of these requirements, you will not be assigned the bureaucrat flag. For more information see the Meta bureaucrat page.

Other access

For these types of access, create a subpage just as you would for regular adminship and add it to the appropriate section of this page.


  • Limited adminship: If you need sysop access for a particular reason (such as ability to edit protected pages), you may request limited adminship on Meta. If granted, the user understands that they will only be allowed to use the tools for the tasks they were approved, and not doing so will be grounds for immediate removal. Temporary sysop access will normally be valid for one month unless requested and granted otherwise.


  • CheckUser: please read the CheckUser policy and add your request below under the checkuser section, in the same way as an admin request.

  • Oversight: please read the Oversight policy and add your request below under the oversight section, in the same way as an admin request.



For these types of access, just ask on Meta request for help from a sysop or bureaucrat page:

Requests for global renamer permissions are handled at global permission requests to stewards page.

WMF Office Staff and Contractors

  • If you are an WMF Official or Contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties the process is different. Please have a look at the WMF staff userrights policy on Office wiki[restricted access] and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety; or send an email to ca wikimedia org.(source)

Requests for regular adminship

Beetstra 2

Not ending before 30 November 2024 17:03 (UTC)

I am re-nominating myself for meta admin. I am an admin on the English Wikipedia (en:User:Beetstra; notification diff), and am Beetstra on all other mediawiki projects.

I was an admin here before, being desysopped for inactivity. I will pick up some activity again at the spam blacklist, but the real need is to maintain the bot settings pages (User:COIBot/User:LiWa3/User:XLinkBot), which are also here on meta (and which are edit-protected and should stay protected). Not having edit access to them is making it difficult for me to perform maintenance tasks on the bots. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 17:03, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for limited adminship

None currently

Requests for interface adminship

None currently

Requests for bureaucratship

None currently

Requests for CheckUser access

"Meta:Requests for checkuser" redirects here. To request checkuser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information.
None currently

Requests for Oversight access

"Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.
None currently

Requests for translation adminship

Ankermast

Hey there, I have been translating pages into German language here on Meta as well as mediawiki.org (see my contributions there) for some months now and would also like to help prepare untranslated pages for the process. Therefore, I would like to be granted the TA right. I have carefully read through the guidelines and added the markup in some pages: 1 2 3 (I noticed my error in the first one where I could have used less tags and did better in the other two). Best regards --Ankermast (talk) 14:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for CentralNotice adminship

Manfred Werner (WMAT)

Not ending before 3 December 2024 13:26 (UTC) As an employee of Wikimedia Österreich (since 2018), also part of my time there is reserved for and dedicated to being a member of the organizing team of Wiki Loves Monuments international, I've been concerned with requesting or preparing central notices time and again. In recent years this was for example for WikiDaheim (annual photo contest in Austria, combining WLM, WLE etc) or Coordinate Me (Wikidata contest). From that I am familiar with the basics and requirements of central notices. From previous work I know HTML, CSS and JavaScript, I'm very much used to handling graphic jobs, Wiki syntax is nothing new to me either; all of this should be helpful here as well. The plan is primarily to be able to handle campaigns where I am directly involved in the respective projects, according to the general rules for central notices of course. In addition I would help with other campaigns too, that's something I will have to learn to coordinate with the other admins in this area.
PS: I am requesting this as User:Manfred Werner (WMAT), not with my private account as de:User:Tsui (active for 20+ years, mostly on de.wikipedia and Commons). I am used to separate this roles very strict. --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 13:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It's working now. --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 15:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for bot flags

TNTBot 2

Not ending before 28 November 2024 14:31 (UTC)

TNTBot currently does one supervised and low-edit task here on Meta (marking former WMF staff accounts as such). I'm requesting it be given the bot flag so that these infrequent edits don't appear in recent changes, and to affirm that the community finds this to be a useful and desired task.

nb. Meta:Requests for bot status/TNTBot is an old, withdrawn request unrelated to this task. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 14:31, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"infrequent" -> doesn't require the bot flag, does it? I think it can run unsupervised, but without a bot flag. Leaderboard (talk) 11:17, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  Support * Pppery * it has begun 04:39, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See also

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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